2012-01-23 16:52:00
A British pharmaceutical company has developed a mouth spray from key ingredients of marijuana to treat severe cancer pain.
2012-01-23 14:01:00
Scientists have discovered a major clue to a type of chronic pain called neuropathic pain, which affects millions of people worldwide.
2012-01-23 10:46:00

More Afghans fled the country and sought asylum abroad in 2011 than in any other year since the start of the decade-long war, suggesting that many are looking for their own exit strategy as
2012-01-22 19:00:00
Ryan Braun's appeal of his positive drug test began Thursday before baseball arbitrator Shyam Das.
2012-01-21 20:30:00
Police say two Puerto Rican men have been arrested at Boston's Logan Airport after a drug dog sniffed cocaine in their luggage.
2012-01-21 17:00:00
A lawsuit in which Texas accused Johnson & Johnson of plundering the state Medicaid program by overstating the safety of an expensive anti-psychotic drug and improperly influencing officials
2012-01-20 16:40:00
China will regulate the production and sale of cosmetic coloured contact lenses by including them in its list of items classified as "medical apparatus".
2012-01-20 15:10:00
A new class of nanoparticles, synthesized by scientists to prevent premature drug release, holds promise for greater accuracy and effectiveness in delivering cancer drugs to tumours.
2012-01-19 18:45:00
In a major setback for patients and doctors, drugmakers Pfizer Inc. and Medivation Inc. have halted development of a potential Alzheimer's disease treatment after the drug for a second time
2012-01-19 13:50:00
Severe headaches for days, nausea and vomiting - migraine patients go through hell. In fact it has been ranked as the 19th most disabling disease by WHO. But anti-ageing drug botox can bring some relief to chronic patients, say experts, though there is not much awareness about this cure yet.